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     Robert Vickers Member Username: Robert_vickers Post Number: 21 Registered: 05-2005 |
Posted for your amusement, my new hobby. Building myspace sites for my old bands. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=538647 49 http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=516918 16 | ||
| Robert Vickers Member Username: Robert_vickers Post Number: 22 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry, these should work better... http://www.myspace.com/thegobetweensmk1 http://www.myspace.com/thecolorsnyc | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 83 Registered: 05-2005 |
nice to see the colors up there, I read about t=it briefly in the GB's book, great to actually hear the sounds now. Did you ever do anything with Malcolm Ross other than Low Shot? | ||
| marc horton Member Username: Armenianthunder Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2006 |
what about The Mad Scene, Robert? surely they merit a re-visit...! i've not heard The Colors....i'll check it out. well done! | ||
| Robert Vickers Member Username: Robert_vickers Post Number: 23 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad people are taking a look. I did 5 tracks with Malcolm for an album just called Malcolm Ross (was it called Low Shot in the UK?). Stephen Daly from OJ on drums and Spike Priggen from Dumptruck on guitar. We played around New York for a while as well. I might do a Mad Scene one but I would have to talk to Hamish and Lisa. I'll post it if I do. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 86 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi Robert Yeah it was called Low Shot here in the UK, it came out on Marina and Bus Stop. Really cool CD, the tracks are nice and raw, and its really mixed up. It must've been a real shock when people heard the roll call, y know what with Steven Daly abd Malcolm expecting jangle Postcardlike sounds! It was more like the last line up in The Moodists than any Postcard thing. I just wondered if you had worked with Malcolm beyond this CD. Spike Priggen is great isn't he!? I love his album The Very Thing That you Treasure. You played in Big Louise wit him? I really doi feel Spike to be one of the great lost contenders (of which there are very many). I dare anyone to buy that CD of his and not be totally impressed, cheers for the response anyhow. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 88 Registered: 02-2005 |
Say, was that Go-Betweens picture from 1983 taken in the spacious, lower level dressing room suite at Maxwell's? Is that one of the Laura Levine pic's you've mentioned? | ||
| Robert Vickers Member Username: Robert_vickers Post Number: 24 Registered: 05-2005 |
It is taken in the dressing room by the stairs. It's the only one I have. I didn't know Laura then, she was probably there to see Chris Stamey. Thanks for the tape by the way. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 90 Registered: 02-2005 |
You're very welcome, Robert. I didn't really know Laura, but she was always on the scene back then. Although come to think of it, I did once share a hotel room with her!!! It was a group trip to Mardi Gras, about 10 people from the Hoboken scene and we shared two rooms in a fleabag hotel about 3-miles from the French Quarter (it had been advertised as being within walking distance). The trip was partially inspired by a show with Let's Active, The dB's and Chris Stamey's It's A Wonderful Life that we all went to... fun times. Did The G-B's play Maxwell's more than once in late '83? IIRC, the other groups on that New Years Eve bill you played were The Individuals (Glenn Morrow's band, he's the proprietor of Bar None Records) and Red Buckets. Red Buckets were a really great band that were never recorded. The lead guy, Richard Mason, died about three years ago and there was a tribute show at Maxwell's in the fall of '04 with the surviving band members, Kris Yiengst, Michael Carlucci and Stanley Demeski, joined by guest singer/guitarists including, Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo), Glenn Mercer (Feelies) and Sean Eden (Luna). It was great hearing Red Buckets' repertoire again; it really stood the test of time. They had a sort of Urban Folk-Rock sound (say, VU & TV meets Fairport) and did wonderful covers of Nick Drake's 'Which Will' and Sandy Denny's 'It'll Take A Long Time.' Their own songs were so good that most people thought those tunes were band originals (pretty obscure back in 1983... Nick Drake hadn't started hawking VW's yet). But even with the underground superstar lineup the Tribute Night only drew about 25 people to Maxwell's on a Thursday night. 'The Ballad of Red Buckets' from YLT's ELECTR-O-PURA is about the band. | ||
| Robert Vickers Member Username: Robert_vickers Post Number: 25 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't know why I thought it was Chris Stamey. Although my memory of the night is slightly clouded by alcohol. I know we only played Maxwells once. I can see on the tape you gave me you've written Rage to Live and Red Buckets. Who were Rage to Live? | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 92 Registered: 02-2005 |
Oh, my mistake. Rage To Live was Glenn's post-Individuals combo... I was working from memory there, but it's the same guy. That's not meant to diminish the contributions of the Individuals' rhythm section Janet and Doug Wygal and lead guitarist John Klages. The Individuals were a better, more successful and longer-lived band than Rage To Live. I did send you CDR of that show, didn't I? If not, let me know. | ||
| Robert Vickers Member Username: Robert_vickers Post Number: 26 Registered: 05-2005 |
You did give me a CD version thanks Guy. Janet, Doug and other sister Trisha are great friends of mine. I even played with Doug for a while. |